Quotes About Him Being A Player

#1. I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

Johnny Weir

#2. To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

Gerard Houllier

#3. It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

Alison Gopnik

#4. The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.

George Preston Marshall

#5. I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.

Wes Borland

#6. I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.

Cory Arcangel

#7. Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

William Butler Yeats

#8. Why can't I be MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league?

Derrick Rose

#9. I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to ... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

Frank Robinson

#10. You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them.

Sania Mirza

#11. No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

Elizabeth I

#12. The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final

Lawrie McMenemy

#13. Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

Max Euwe

#14. The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.

Frank Thomas

#15. Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

#16. When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

David Bowie

#17. I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#18. The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player,

Frank Vogel

#19. The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

Thomas Beecham

#20. He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.

Stephen Curry

#21. There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys want to keep playing forever.

Susane Colasanti

#22. This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

Maria Sharapova

#23. You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

Roger Milla

#24. I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Maria Sharapova

#25. A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

Steve Jobs

#26. A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.

Carmelo Anthony

#27. The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."

Chick Hearn

#28. For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You've achieved, you've got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.

Mike Krzyzewski

#29. Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

Pee Wee Reese

#30. Become a player in the orchestra of human society.

Yonason Goldson

#31. I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming.

Kobe Bryant

#32. I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

Colin Hay

#33. Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

Moses Malone

#34. It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.

Luke Donald

#35. My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

Willie Lanier

#36. When they hunt, every dog knows the position of every other dog. I wanted them to understand the duality of team and player. The strength of the player is the team and the strength of the team is the player.

Terry Pratchett

#37. As a player you are always made to feel welcome, but at the same time, there is too much pressure.

David Gower

#38. Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

Shelley Winters

#39. People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row.

Luiz Felipe Scolari

#40. I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

Fay Vincent

#41. Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'

Craig Kilborn

#42. In regards to core training, I try to incorporate the medicine ball whenever possible. As a baseball player, there is a lot of twisting and turning that I will do. Keeping my abs strong is as important as anything else.

Albert Pujols

#43. I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

Phil Esposito

#44. The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think ... ahh, I've heard that lick before.

Tom Verlaine

#45. Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

Virat Kohli

#46. I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.

Oliver Kahn

#47. The most important thing for a forward is speed of thought. Top players read the game.

Samuel Eto'o

#48. Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.

Frank Caliendo

#49. Remember that thing I alluded to on the plane?" he asked, eyes glued to her. A tiny smile played at her lips. "Jog my memory, Player Will." He squeezed his eyes closed, took a deep breath before looking back at her, and said, "Marry me?

Christina Lauren

#50. The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

Bert Blyleven

#51. If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#52. It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

Khloe Kardashian

#53. Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

Brett Favre

#54. Samuel Eto'o is reputedly the highest-paid player in the world at £350,000 per week - that's £5,000 a day

Clive Tyldesley

#55. I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

Kevin Keegan

#56. Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

Bill Wyman

#57. Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

Michel Patini

#58. I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

Donald Dunn

#59. Thierry Henry, he was definitely the best. He was just too quick. Oh God, what a player he was. I was so relieved when he went to Barcelona. He used to have everything. You couldn't even kick him, he was big and strong, oh, Jesus, he was a nightmare

Jamie Carragher

#60. The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.

Paul Ince

#61. My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.

Sinead O'Connor

#62. Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

Scottie Pippen

#63. [In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

Eric Gagne

#64. These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government sponsored entities. They really kicked off this crisis. The state should set the rules and enforce them but not become involved as a market player.

George Soros

#65. Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Ned Colletti

#66. The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

Michael Jordan

#67. I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

Jevon Kearse

#68. The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.

Ty Cobb

#69. The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Bill Gates

#70. Sachin is the greatest player I have seen. I consider it an honour to have rubbed shoulders with him

Brian Lara

#71. He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him.

Nick Farr-Jones

#72. When a player gets to 30, so does his body

Glenn Hoddle

#73. I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content to be someone's lead guitar player.

Brad Paisley

#74. There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa

Trevor Bailey

#75. I think when you have spent the money that we have, it's bound to bring it's own pressure. The players have shown that they can handle that though.
(on Chelsea)

Frank Lampard

#76. I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

Fred Couples

#77. William had played [rugby] at Eton when it first became popular, and now he only spoke of it in a reverent tone he normally saved only for women and rifles. . . . .
[in contrast] Cricket had rules: one was not allowed to stamp on the head of another player and pass it off as enthusiasm.

Natasha Pulley

#78. Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength and he is a genuine competitor.

Thierry Henry

#79. One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.

Tim Tebow

#80. A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

John Wooden

#81. There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

David Bronstein

#82. When Jason Koumas is on form, he's the type of player who calls all the strings

Ian Rush

#83. There's nothing like a player playing the game of life with a coach rooting them on.

Nicole A. Walker

#84. I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!

Marco Reus

#85. The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records. He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed.

Steve Young

#86. I have my own identity as a player.

Carmelo Anthony

#87. How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

Hayden Fry

#88. We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.

Bob McNair

#89. Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.

Charlie Sheen

#90. Psychology plays a big part but I always say psychology will only be a differentiator when the players are of equal technical strength.

Viswanathan Anand

#91. As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

Jason Giambi

#92. Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#93. I'm a point guard, I've always been a point guard, I've played point guard all my life. Personally, I feel the best point guards make other players look better and create their own shot. I fit in that category.

Chauncey Billups

#94. The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good in their natural game. Then, and only then, can we begin to outline the general tactics.

Helenio Herrera

#95. Do your best when no one is looking.

Bob Cousy

#96. There are a lot of great players ... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.

Dizzy Gillespie

#97. I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don't like bands that look like roadies. I don't like when I can't tell who's the guitar tech and who's the guitar player.

Alison Mosshart

#98. India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

Judit Polgar

#99. (Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

Doc Rivers

#100. I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

Vince Lombardi